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Also known as great tower, donjon, castle keep, tribute tower
中世の要塞塔の一種。ヨーロッパの貴族が城内に建てた。
A keep is a large fortified tower built inside medieval castles by European nobility, serving as a heavily defended residence and final refuge if the rest of the castle was captured by attackers. Keeps were originally constructed from timber and represented a crucial defensive feature of castle architecture in medieval Europe.
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Within Vinony's link graph, キープ is referenced by 1,783 other articles, and connects out to Palladian architecture, watchtower and star fort.
It is catalogued under topics including Castle architecture and Fortified towers by type.
Its subject is documented across 52 Wikipedia language editions.
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Article · 日本語
キープ（英語: Keep）またはドンジョン（フランス語: Donjon）は、中世ヨーロッパの城で中心となる建造物のこと。日本語では日本の城の天守との性質の類似性から天守と訳される。類似するものに「ベルクフリート」というドイツの城郭建築もあるが、高さの割に狭く、監視塔程度にしか使われていなかった。
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